The most painful physical experience I have ever been through?? Being discarded like garbage by the life partner you loved for 30 years Then bring expected to somehow "just get over it" as if it were just random mere brief three months dating period in your 20s. Then Trying to piece together what's left of your shattered core self at over 50. While they happily move on with someone new while claiming that you are "overreacting". . I don't care what sexuality or gender you are. This is not a gender war thang! The fact I happen to be a straight man being dumped by a wife is immaterial. As a fellow human being, just like you. It is the most painful thing I have ever been through. And "yes" , It Does manafest as an actual physical pain ....